Sporting shoes



Patented May 13, 1924.

UNITED STATES PATENT oFF ICE.l

DANIEL J'. GOLDEN, OF IBROCKTON, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR T0 WALTER T.STALL,

CHARLES'H. DEAN, AND SAID DANIEL J. GOLDEN, A COPARTNERSHIP DOING BUSI-NESSAAS GOLDEN SPORTING SHOE COMPANY, OF IBROCXTON, MASSACHIISETTS.

SPORTING SHOES.

Application tiled December 23, 1922.` Serial No. 608,742. i

To aZZ whom t may concern.'

Be it known that I, DANIEL J. GonDEN, a citizen of the United States,reslding at Brockton, in the county of Plymouth and Y State ofMassachusetts, have invented new and useful Improvements in SportingShoes,

of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates particularly to shoes such as those disclosed bymy Patent N o. 938,843, November 2, 1909, the outer surface of the treadportion of the outsole being provided with cleats, adapted to indent theground and prevent slipping, and secured to the outsole and'to theinsole by fastening members passing through openings in a resilientpressure-supporting plate, usually of sheet steel, interposed betweenthe two soles.

The object of the invention is to provide the plate, when used in afootball shoe, with anchoring means adapted to securely engage fasteningmeans engaged with a supplemental cleat, and cause the latter to preventliability of displacement of the usual oblong cleats employed infootball shoes, said oblong cleats presenting elongated sides, and beingliable to be wrenched loose by pressure on said sides.

The said plate and the supplemental cleatanchoring means permit theemployment of a supplemental cleat, adapted to resist all stresses andstrains liable to displace the oblong cleats. v

after described and claimed. I

Of the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification,-

Figure l is a side view of my inproved pressure-supporting plateembodying the invention.

Figure 2 is ure 1.

Figure 3 is a fragmentary sectional View, taken on the median line ofthe forepart of a welted shoe.

Figure 4 is a view similar to Figure 3, showing a McKay sewed shoe.

Figure 5 is a perspective view of the supplemental cleat.

Figure 6 is a perspective view of one of the oblong cleats.

The same reference characters indicate the same parts in all thefigures.

In the drawings, 10 represents a resilient a section on line 2--2 ofFigpressure-supporting plate, formed to be interposed between the insole12 and an outsole 13 of a sporting shoe, and provided with openingsarranged to 'receive fastening members W ich securecleats 15.

In a football shoe the cleats are oblong, and usually composed of soleleather lifts cemented together and secured by fastening` members, suchas nails 17, driven through lholes formed for their reception in thecleats, and through openings in the plate 10, the fastening members ashere shown, being clenched on the inner sole.

rIhe openings in the plate 10 are in this case, oblong slots 18,arranged in the marginal portion of the plate, as shown by Figure .Y

The plate 10 is positioned on one of the soles before the soles areassembledy and secured to each other and to the upper 19. In the weltedshoe shown by Figure 3, the plate is first applied to the insole 12. Inthe Mc- Keg sewed shoe shown by Figure 4, the plate is rst applied tothe outsole 13.

To prevent liability of endwise and edgewise shpping of the plate on thesole to which it is applied7 I provide the plate with integral spurs 20,projecting from one side of the plate and In the welted shoe the spursproject inward and enter the insole, and in a McKay sewed shoe the spursproject outward and enter the outsole.

To enable the plate to be used with either of the described shoes, Iform il-shaped slits 20, in the plate, these extending from side to sideof the plate and forming the edges of V-shaped spurs 20. The operationof cutting the sllts does not displace the metal forming the spurs, andleaves the sides of the spurs iiush with the sides of the plate, so thatthe plate may be adapted for use in adapted to enter the sole. I

either make of shoe, by bending the spurs l cured to the central portionof the plate, the boss being internally threaded and adapted to engagethe threaded portion of the screw 28, as shown by Figures 3 and 4. Thecentral portion of the tread face of the outsole is provided with anorifice 25, receiving the boss 24. Said boss is preferably provided withan annular 'thin edged flange 26, attached by rivets 27 to the plate 10.

It will be seen that the boss 24 and the screw 23 engaged therewith,provide a strong connection between the supplemental cleat and the plate10y confining the cleat against the tread face of the outsole, andadapted to resist pressure exerted 'in directions which would be liableto displace the oblong cleats 4 y 15, the form of the supplemental cleatbeing such that it is adapted to resist pressure against any side of thecleat.

The supplemental cleat 22 is preferably formed as a truncated pyramid asshown by Figure 5, having side faces of uniform area and located atuniform distances from the screw 23, so that the supplemental cleat isadapted, by its form, and by the screw 23 and the boss 24, whereby it ispositively secured to the plate, to cause a uniform resistance topressure, tending to tip the cleat in any direction.

It is desirable to provide the cleats 15 with two opposite side facesyeach of major area exceeding that of either of the side faces of thecleat 22, and two side or end faces of major area, as may be seen bycomparing Figures 5 and 6. If the marginal cleats 15 were pyramidal, andeach had been side faces of equal area, and if each cleat 15 werepositively secured to the insole like the supplemental cleat, thesecleats would be too bulky, heavy7 and clumsy, there being usually sixcleats 15. The oblong form of the cleats 15 renders it necessary tosecure each cleat b a row of nails, the thickness of these cleats inginsufficient to permit the use of relatively large attaching screws 23.It will be seen, therefore, that the supplemental cleat 22 and thesecuring means therefor, characterized as above stated, enables saidcleat., when embedded in the ground, to support the vmajor portion ofthestrain exerted on the series of cleats, and prevent liability oftipping displacement of the cleats 15 by strain exerted on their majorside faces, and resisted only by the nails 17.

I claim:

In a shoe of the character stated, comp-rising an outsole, an insole anda resilient pressure-supporting plate interposed between said soles, andprovided at its marginal portion with oblong openings, oblong cleatsprojecting from the marginal portion of the tread face of the outsole,and nails extending through the oblong cleats and into the two soles andclinched in the insole; the describedimprovement comprising asupplemental cleat projecting from the central portion of the said treadface, and means positively securin the supplemental cleat to thesupporting p ate and clamping it against said tread face, said meansincluding an internally threaded boss having a flange riveted to thesupporting plate, said boss projecting Athrough an orifice in theoutsole, and an attaching screw extending through the supplemental cleatand engaged with said boss, the' supplemental cleat being formedy andthe said securing means adapted, to

cause a uniform resistance to pressure tending to tip the supplementalcleat in any direct-ion, so that said cleat, when embedded in theground, acts to prevent liability of displacement of the oblong cleatsby pressure exerted on the major side faces of the latter.

In testimony whereof I have aflixed my signature.

DANIEL J. GOLDEN.

